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Discourse relations and evaluation.
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n this paper, we examine the role of discourse relations (relations between propositions) in the interpretation of evaluative or opinion words. Through a combination of Rhetorical Structure Theory (or RST; Mann and Thompson, 1988) and Appraisal Theory (Martin and White, 2005), we analyse how different discourse relations modify the evaluative content of opinion words, and what impact the nucleus–satellite structure in RST has on the evaluation. We conduct a corpus study, examining and annotating over 3,000 evaluative words in fifty movie reviews in the SFU Review Corpus (Taboada, 2008) with respect to five parameters: word category (noun, verb, adjective or adverb), prior polarity (positive, negative or neutral), RST structure (both nucleus–satellite status and relation type) and change of polarity as a result of being part of a discourse relation (Intensify, Downtone, Reversal or No Change). Results show that relations such as Concession, Elaboration, Evaluation, Evidence and Restatement most frequently intensify the polarity of opinion words, although the majority of evaluative words do not undergo changes in their polarity related to the type of relation that they are a part of. We also find that most opinion words (about 70 percent) are positioned in the nucleus, confirming a hypothesis based on the literature that nuclei are the most important units when extracting opinion automatically.
Dolgorukova N., Кифишина А. Ф., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2026 № 527 С. 23–31
Исследуется эволюция сюжета о короле Лире через призму трёх средневековых текстов. Особое внимание уделяется мотиву Фортуны и судьбы, а также образу Лира. Анализ демонстрирует, как трансформация сюжета отражают меняющиеся культурные и литературыне контексты Средневековья, подготовляющие почву для дальнейших интерпретаций, в том числе у Шекспира. ...
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Stognieva O., Safonova D., Lozitskaya E., Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026.
This textbook is a practical and engaging guide for learners and professionals who need to communicate clearly and confidently in multicultural business environments. It offers step-by-step strategies, concise practice tasks, and regular progress checks that help readers apply intercultural communication skills directly to real workplace situations. Clear structure and focused activities make the book equally ...
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Ватлецов Сергей Германович, М.: ИНФРА-М, 2026.
Монография представляет собой теоретическое и лексикографическое описание зооморфной лексики в английском языке. В работе осуществлено концептуальное осмысление вербального зооморфизма, позволившее отграничить его от смежных, диффузных и пограничных языковых явлений. В сборнике английских анималистических метафор и сравнений отражается зооморфная лексика в художественной, бытовой, производственно-профессиональной сферах и сфере массовой коммуникации.
Книга адресована специалистам в области германистики, когнитивной лингвистики, ...
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Степанов А. Г., Slavica TerGestina 2025 № 35-2 С. 158–193
The connection of the poetic form with the content is investigated. The free verse, developed by W. Whitman in the second half of the 19th century, took root in the USSR with difficulty. In modern Russian poetry, the free verse, while preserving the aura of Western poetic culture, often combines gender and political meanings, broadcasting ...
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Podobryaev A., Ivlieva N., Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 2026 Vol. 11 No. 1 P. 1–25
Unlike many other Turkic languages, Balkar normally demonstrates obligatory subject-verb
number agreement in finite clauses with 3rd person subjects: when a subject is plural-marked,
so is the verb. However, there are cases when the subject is not overtly plural-marked, but the
verb can be. We argue for an account where such facts are not reduced to any form ...
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Zenkin S., P.: Classiques Garnier, 2025.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, visual image (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.) can often be a character in literary and film plots, an element of the fictional world. Its narrative forms and functions are explored from a theoretical and comparative perspective. ...
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ИДВ РАН, 2026.
This paper addresses the issue perceiving the national Vietnamese costume as a tool of cultural representation in the context of official state events held in Vietnam and abroad. The study focuses on specific cases of protocol visits, meetings, forums, and beauty contests, where the ao dai and other types and elements of national clothing are ...
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Qiang S., Linguistic Research 2025 No. 3 P. 76–85
The determination of new words and meanings is a key issue in lexical history studies. However,
common reliance on identifying “the earliest examples” can be challenged by textual complexity and subjective
disagreements. Focusing on the emergence of the FAST meaning of kuai (快), this study proposes criteria for
identifying new meanings from the perspective of the lexical system. ...
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Budennaya E., Русская речь 2026 Т. 4 С. 57–78
This study analyzes non-calendar and hypocoristic Christian names
within the Russian white clergy. It identifi es two active periods of name formation using Slavic hypocoristic suffi xes: the 11th — 14th centuries (peaking
in the 12th) and the 16th — 17th centuries.
The fi rst period is tied to the general adoption of Christian names, where
diminutive forms acted ...
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Budennaya E., Slovĕne 2026 Т. 1 С. 31–67
The article examines Old Russian anthroponyms with the suffix -ec-, originally conveying the meaning ‘less than X’. A diachronic corpus study of
11th–17th-century texts reveals that while this suffix lacked inherent pejorative
connotations in Old Russian sources, contextual (adherent) pejoration is clearly
observable. For pre-15th-century chronicles, two primary usage patterns are
identified—1) characters with explicit negative evaluation, and 2) ...
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Seleznev M., Луппова А. А., Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института 2026 Т. 18 № 1(57) С. 10–35
The story of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) is one of the key episodes in the narratives of the Book of Genesis. In modern scholarship, various—often sharply divergent—datings of this pericope are proposed, as well as different interpretations of its place in the picture of the formation of the biblical text that was put ...
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Seleznev M., Луппова А. А., Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института 2026 Т. 18 № 2 (58) С. 322–349
Like other narratives in the Book of Genesis, the story of Cain and Abel (Gen 4:1–16) has been studied and commented upon for more than two millennia. However, recent scholarship has introduced significant revisions to traditional interpretations. Over the past five years, several monumental commentaries on Genesis 1–11 have been published, offering new—and sometimes mutually ...
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Seleznev M., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 3 No. 86 P. 589–592
The article reconstructs the 'biography' of an alleged (in fact, non-existent) fragment of
4QDeutq said to contain a non-Masoretic reading of Deut 32 : 8. It traces how erroneous
references to the fragment emerged during the preliminary publication of the Scrolls in the
1950s, the scholarly attention this fragment received, its eventual disappearance from Qumran
studies after the official ...
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Ronko R., Тимофеева В. Д., Индоиранские языки 2026 Т. 2 № 2 С. 117–146
The paper is devoted to the variable number marking in Shughni
nouns and reports the results of corpus and experimental studies. In some languages,
including Shughni, the marking of plural nouns is not compulsory. Many
factors such as animacy, referentiality, morphological and semantic properties,
or syntactic position may determine the presence or absence of number marking.
The corpus study investigates ...
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Ronko R., Zemicheva S., Труды института русского языка им. В.В. Виноградова 2026 Т. 3 № 49 С. 133–149
In the dialects of the Russian-Belarusian borderland, the verb byt’ ‘to be’ in the present tense is represented by a set of short (e, ё) and full forms (ecть, ёсць, etc.). This article investigates the variability of these forms in the dialect corpus of the village of Spiridonova Buda (Zlynkovskij District, Bryansk Region) and in ...
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Ronko R., RHEMA. РЕМА 2026 № 1 С. 9–20
In the introductory article to the thematic volume devoted to grammatical research on the speech of several villages, the main linguistic-geographical information about the dialect is presented, along with a description of the key methodological principles for working with the material. The dialects under study belong to the group of the Pskov dialects and border ...
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Rezvykh P. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Философия 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 127–143
The issue delivers an analysis of schellingian motives in the later works by A.F. Losev. The author brings information about Losev’s retrospective evaluation of Schelling’s influence on the formation of his own philosophical approach, it’s specific character and it’s grade. The author shows that all the main investigation projects of the later Losev which have ...
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Pershkina A., Slovĕne 2026 Т. 15 № 1 С. 174–192
The article newly presents archival materials from the Directorate of Imperial Theaters relative to the organization of a crocodile exhibition held in St. Petersburg Passage department store in the autumn of 1864, along with newspaper reports on the event. The close analysis of specific articles demonstrates that this exhibition served as the direct inspiration and ...
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Куликова В. А., Гусев А. Д., Токунова П. В., Коммуникативные исследования 2026 Т. 13 № 2 С. 355–369
The article examines the semantic and pragmatic features of cognitive terms functioning in modern Russian-language media texts. The study aims to describe the specifics of using cognitive terminology in contexts aimed at expressing evaluation. The relevance of the work is driven by the active processes of mediatization and determinologization, as a result of which scientific ...
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Trnavac R., Katie Patterson J., Russian Journal of Linguistics 2025 Vol. 29 No. 3 P. 560–585
The linguistic literature has shown that metaphor provokes evaluative meanings, but it is unclear how different types of metaphor, as well as different genres of discourse influence the realization of such meanings. To partially answer this question, our study aims to investigate the relationship between conceptual metaphors and evaluation in Australian broadsheet and tabloid articles ...
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Abramov R., Rozhdestvenskaya E., Sablya A., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2025 Т. 28 № 2 С. 182–210
Evidence-based social policy has become a prevalent approach to managing social programs, relying heavily on evaluation procedures often intertwined with sociological methods. This article analyzes the implementation of one such evaluation procedure—feedback from recipients of social intervention—within a comprehensive assessment of an interdisciplinary team’s intervention technology addressing child rights violations. Interviews with family members participating in the program were conducted. Findings ...
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Anna Volodkevich, Ivanova V., Vasilev A. et al., , in: Advances in Information Retrieval: 47th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2025, Lucca, Italy, April 6–10, 2025, Proceedings, Part IV.: Springer, 2025. P. 425–430.
Simulators for recommender systems are widely used for recommender systems performance evaluation and feedback loop effects analysis. Existing simulators often propose inflexible pipelines, are focused on narrow research tasks, or are not adapted to work with industrial large data volumes. To address these challenges, we developed the Sim4Rec simulation framework. The Sim4Rec models key aspects ...
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Shevchenko V., Belousov N., Vasilev A. et al., , in: KDD '24: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2024. P. 5701–5712.
In the rapidly evolving domain of Recommender Systems (RecSys), new algorithms frequently claim state-of-the-art performance based on evaluations over a limited set of arbitrarily selected datasets. However, this approach may fail to holistically reflect their effectiveness due to the significant impact of dataset characteristics on algorithm performance. Addressing this deficiency, this paper introduces a novel ...
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Kuvshinskaya Y. M., Аксенова А. А., В кн.: Язык и метод: Русский язык в лингвистических исследованиях XXI векаVol. 7.: Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2021. С. 213–222.
Работа посвящена пунктуации в предложениях с союзом "то есть". Данные Национального корпуса русского языка показываютрост частотности употребления этого коннектора в начале независимого предложения, после точки, несмотря на то, что такое употребление пока еще не закреплено в качестве кодифицированной нормы. В работе обсуждаются различия в употреблении "то есть" в середине и в начале предложения: возможность выражать ...
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